*Girls’ Comics: Sandie was launched by Fleetway on the 12th February 1972, and heavily promoted in its stablemates as a ‘sister paper to Tammy’ – the implication being that young readers should add it to their weekly purchases, rather than switch over. Given that Tammy herself was less than a year old at the time of Sandie’s launch, Fleetway were obviously keen for a second ‘street-level’ weekly, and had high hopes for editor John Wagner’s brainchild. Featuring superior artwork and the usual mixture of elements,  (humour  -“Brenda’s Brownies” , mild soap – “Friends and Neighbours” , animal antics – “Silver Is A Star” and the inevitable ‘slave story’ – “Captives of Madam Karma”, by a new-to-the-biz Pat Mills), Sandie nevertheless failed to ‘snag’ a huge audience, and with the issue of 10th October 1973, readers faced the announcement that Sandie was being absorbed into Tammy. This once-forgotten title has experienced a resurgence of interest in recent times, and we have in excess of two dozen of the 80-something published issues new in from 1972, varying grades, the single biggest influx of this series we have ever had, including #2 and the one sole Christmas issue.